# List of National Cycle Network routes

This is a list of routes on Sustrans's National Cycle Network within the United Kingdom.
As the cycle network has not been fully completed, some sections of routes are still under construction.

## Single Digit Main National Routes

| Number | Route | Major incomplete sections | Notes | Map |
| 1 | Dover – Shetland, along the east coast, via London, Edinburgh, John o' Groats and Orkney | Whitby - Staithes | | Map |
| 2 | Dover – St Austell, along the south coast, when completed. | Dawlish – Totnes; Plymouth – St Austell | | OSM |
| 3 | Bristol – Land's End | | Incorporating the West Country Way and the Cornish Way, via St. Austell, Bude, Barnstaple, Taunton and Wells | OSM |
| 4 | Greenwich – Fishguard, in West Wales, via Reading, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Swansea, Carmarthen, Tenby, Haverfordwest and St. Davids | | | Map |
| 5 | Reading – Holyhead, via Birmingham, The Midlands and the North Wales coast | Walsall – Stafford; diversions at Colwyn Bay. | | Map |
| 6 | Windsor – Lake District, via Milton Keynes, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Preston and Lancaster | Castleton – Reddish, Blackburn – Preston | | OSM |
| 7 | Sunderland – Inverness via Carlisle and Glasgow | | Eastern section of C2C. Incorporating the Clyde and Loch Lomond Cycleway | OSM |
| 8 | Cardiff – Holyhead, via Brecon, Builth Wells, Machynlleth, Porthmadog and Bangor, through the heart of Wales. | | Also known as Lôn Las Cymru | OSM |
| 9 | Belfast – Dublin, when completed, via Lisburn, Craigavon, Portadown and Scarva | Slieve Gullion – Dublin | | Map |

## Double Digit National Routes

| Number | Route | Major incomplete sections | Notes | Map |
| 10 | Cockermouth – North Shields, via Carlisle, Kielder Forest, and Bellingham | | Forms the majority of the Reivers Cycle Route | OSM |
| 11 | Harlow – Wiggenhall St Germans (south of King's Lynn), via Cambridge and Ely | Harlow – Stanstead Mountfitchet; Waterbeach – Wicken; link to Saffron Walden; Shadoxhurst (joins Route 18) to Lydd (joins Route 2) | | OSM |
| 12 | Enfield – Spalding, via Potters Bar, Hatfield, Stevenage, St Neots, Peterborough | Enfield Lock – Hadley Wood; intermittent sections Stotfold – Sandy | Also known as the Great North Way | OSM |
| 13 | Tower Bridge – Barking – Grays – Chelmsford – Colchester – Bury St Edmunds – Thetford – Fakenham | Sections around Grays | Joins route 1 between Chelmsford and Colchester | OSM |
| 14 | Darlington – Stockton-on-Tees – Hartlepool – Durham – Consett – South Shields | | Also known as the Three Rivers Cycle Route | OSM |
| 15 | (Nottingham – Grantham – Sleaford) | | Connect route 6 in Belton, near Shepshed Leicestershire with route 1 in Lincolnshire near Coningsb | OSM |
| 16 | (Basildon – Shoeburyness) | | | OSM |
| 17 | Rochester – ( spur to Maidstone) – Ashford (proposed) to Newchurch, Kent joining Route 2 | | | OSM |
| 18 | Canterbury – Ashford – Tenterden – Tunbridge Wells | | | OSM |
| 20 | Wandsworth – Redhill – Crawley – Brighton | | Joins route 21 between Redhill and Crawley | OSM |
| 21 | Greenwich – Lewisham – Crawley – East Grinstead – Heathfield – Eastbourne | | Several sections are not suitable for road bikes. | OSM |
| 22 | Banstead – Dorking – Guildford – Farnham – Petersfield – Havant – Portsmouth – (by ferry to Isle of Wight) – Ryde – Yarmouth – (by ferry to New Forest) – Lymington – Brockenhurst | | ferry connections are required from Portsmouth to Ryde, and again from Yarmouth to Lymington | OSM |
| 23 | Reading – Basingstoke – Winchester – Eastleigh – Southampton – Cowes – Sandown | | | OSM |
| 24 | Bath – Radstock – Frome – Longleat – Warminster – Salisbury – Romsey – Eastleigh | | Also known as the Colliers Way | OSM |
| 25 | Longleat – Gillingham – Blandford Forum – Poole – Bournemouth | | | OSM |
| 26 | Portishead – Clevedon – Cheddar – Wells – Glastonbury – Yeovil – Dorchester – Weymouth – Portland Bill | Portishead – Clevedon Cheddar – Glastonbury | Also known as The Strawberry Line | OSM |
| 27 | Ilfracombe – Barnstaple – Okehampton – Tavistock – Plymouth | | Also known as the Devon Coast to Coast cycle route | OSM |
| 28 | Okehampton – Bovey Tracey – Newton Abbot – Totnes – Salcombe – Yealmpton – Plymouth | Okehampton – Bovey Tracey Newton Abbot – Tontes Yealmpton – Plymouth | | OSM |
| 32 | Bodmin – Padstow – Newquay – Truro | | Part of the Cornish Way cycle route | OSM |
| 33 | Bristol – Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare – Bridgwater – Taunton – Ilminster – Chard – Axminster – Seaton | Nailsea – Weston-super-Mare | Also known as the Wessex Cycleway | OSM |
| 34 | Exeter St Davids – Exeter – Bridge Road | | Joins route 2 at Bridge Road | Map |
| 41 | Bristol – Gloucester – Cheltenham – Tewkesbury – Evesham – Stratford-upon-Avon – Royal Leamington Spa – Rugby | Cheltenham – Tewkesbury Evesham – Stratford-upon-Avon | | OSM |
| 42 | Gloucester – Cinderford – Parkend – Chepstow – Abergavenny – Hay-on-Wye – Glasbury | Gloucester – Cinderford Parkend – Chepstow | | OSM |
| 43 | Swansea – Caehopkin – Llanwrtyd Wells – Builth Wells | Caehopkin – Llanwrtyd Wells | | OSM |
| 44 | Shrewsbury – Bishop's Castle – Bromfield – Ludlow – Hereford – Cinderford | Ludlow – Cinderford | | OSM |
| 45 | Chester – Shrewsbury – Kidderminster – Worcester – Gloucester – Swindon – Salisbury | | | OSM |
| 46 | Bromsgrove – Droitwich – Worcester – Hereford – Abergavenny – Merthyr Tydfil – Neath | Worcester – Hereford | | OSM |
| 47 | Newport – Neath – Swansea – Llanelli – Carmarthen – Fishguard | Neath – Llanelli | | OSM |
| 48 | Lincoln – Leicester – Cirencester – Bath – Exeter | Cirencester – Exeter | | OSM |
| 49 | Abergavenny – Pontypool – Cwmbran – Newport | | | OSM |
| 50 | (Maidenhead – Winslow) | | | OSM |
| 51 | Colchester – Harwich – Ipswich- Felixstowe – Cambridge – Bedford – Milton Keynes – Oxford | | | OSM |
| 52 | (Stratford-upon-Avon – Loughborough) | | | OSM |
| 53 | (Peterborough – Lichfield) | | | OSM |
| 54 | (Stourport-on-Severn – Kidderminster – Dudley) – Lichfield – Derby | | | OSM |
| 55 | (Ironbridge – Preston) | | | OSM |
| 56 | Chester – Liverpool, via Wallasey | | | OSM |
| 57 | Northleach – Witney (-) Oxford – Thame – Princes Risborough – Chesham (–) Hemel Hempstead – Harpenden (– Welwyn Garden City) | | | OSM |
| 60 | Manchester – Prestwich | Cheetham Hill – Prestwich | | OSM |
| 61 | Maidenhead – Uxbridge – Rickmansworth – Hatfield – Ware | | | OSM |
| 62 | Fleetwood – Blackpool – Preston – Southport – Liverpool – Warrington – Manchester – Doncaster – Selby | Hutton – Southport | The Trans Pennine Trail | OSM |
| 63 | Burton upon Trent – Leicester – Oakham (–) Peterborough – Wisbech | | | OSM |
| 64 | Market Harborough – Melton Mowbray (–) Collingham – Lincoln | | | OSM |
| 65 | Hornsea – Hull – Selby – York – Middlesbrough | | Also known as the White Rose cycle route | OSM |
| 66 | Spurn Head – Hull – Beverley – York – Leeds – Bradford – Hebden Bridge – Rochdale – Manchester | Spurn – Hull; Tadcaster – Branham; Mirfield – Brighouse; Castleton – Failsworth | | OSM |
| 67 | Long Eaton – Heanor – Chesterfield – Leeds –Northallerton | | Includes the Nidderdale Greenway and Trans Pennine Trail | OSM |
| 68 | Derby – Buxton – New Mills - Holmfirth – Settle – Appleby – Haltwhistle – Berwick-upon-Tweed | | The Pennine Cycleway running up the spine of England | OSM |
| 69 | Morecambe – Settle – Skipton – Cullingworth – Huddersfield – Horbury – Pontefract – Althorpe – Caistor – Grimsby | Other than the long section forming a part of the Way of the Roses, Route 69 comprises a number of discontinuous, short traffic free sections throughout Yorkshire | Is western end of the Way of the Roses | OSM |
| 70 | Barrow-in-Furness – Kendal – Kirkby Stephen – Barnard Castle – Durham – Sunderland | | W2W, Walney 2 Wear | Map |
| 71 | Northallerton – Appleby – Penrith – Whitehaven and Workington | | Western end of C2C | OSM |
| 72 | Kendal – Barrow-in-Furness – Whitehaven – Silloth – Carlisle – Tynemouth | Kendal – Ravenglass | Includes Hadrian's Cycleway | OSM |
| 73 | Newton Stewart – Stranraer and Lochranza – Kilmarnock | | | OSM |
| 74 | Gretna – Douglas (– Lesmahagow –) Larkhall – Hamilton – Uddingston | | | OSM |
| 75 | Portavadie – Dunoon – Gourock – Glasgow – Edinburgh – Leith | | | OSM |
| 76 | Berwick-upon-Tweed – Edinburgh – Stirling – Kirkcaldy - St Andrews | Kirkcaldy - St Andrews | The Round the Forth Route | OSM |
| 77 | Dundee – Pitlochry, via Perth | | | OSM |
| 78 | Campbeltown – Inverness | | Great Glens Cycle Route | OSM |
| 81 | Aberystwyth – Shrewsbury – Telford – Wolverhampton – Smethwick | | Known as Lon Cambria | OSM |
| 82 | Bangor – Capel Curig - Porthmadog – Dolgellau – Machynlleth (–) Ystrad Meurig – Fishguard | | | OSM |
| 84 | Rhyl – St Asaph (- Llangollen – Oswestry) | | | OSM |
| 85 | Chester – Wrexham - Trevor – Llangollen (- Corwen – Bala – Dolgellau) | | | OSM |
| 88 | Caerleon – Newport – Cardiff( – Bridgend) | | | Map |
| 91 | Armagh; Enniskillen | | Almost entirely scrapped on safety grounds in 2020; just a couple of short sections at Armagh & Enniskillen remain. | Map |
| 92 | Derry; Strabane | | Most of this route was scrapped in 2020 on safety grounds - 21km remains at Derry and a short cross-border stretch between Lifford and Strabane | Map |
| 93 | Bangor & Belfast – Newtownabbey & Larne - Ballycastle - Coleraine - Limavady - Derry | | Most of this coastal route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020; other than sections along Belfast Lough shore, only a few vestigial segments remain. | Map |
| 94 | Formerly a circuit of Lough Neagh; now just Antrim - Randalstown; Lagan Towpath near Aghagallon | | Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, just 15km remains. | Map |
| 95 | | | All of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020. | Map |
| 96 | Ballymoney; Coleraine | | Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, less than 8 km remain | Map |
| 97 | Ballymena | | Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, less than 2km remains, at the 'ECOS Centre' in Ballymena | Map |
| 99 | Belfast – Comber; Newcastle | | Most of this route was de-designated on safety grounds in 2020, only remaining sections are the 'Comber Greenway' and a small section in Newcastle. | Map |

## Three Digit Regional Routes
### Zone 1

* 110: (Cleethorpes – Beelsby, Lincolnshire) linking Cleethorpes to NCR 1 at Beelsby
* 122: (Sandy – Gamlingay – Cambridge)
* 123: (Eaton Socon – Cambridge)
* 125: Darent Valley (Dartford) – this follows the route of the long-distance path Darent Valley Path)
* 136: Ingrebourne Valley Connect2 scheme
* 137: Stifford Bridge and Purfleet, (following the route of the Mardyke Way (along the Mardyke (river))
* 141: Keelman's Way: Wylam – NCN 14 (along south bank of River Tyne)
* 151: Sleaford branch of NCN15
* 155: Morpeth
* 164: Pocklington - Hutton Cranswick and Kiplingcotes - Beverley. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route and The Way of the Roses route.
* 165: Barnard Castle - Whitby. A branch of the W2W route (previously regional route 52)
* 166: Kirkham Abbey- Hunmanby. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
* 167: Kirkham Abbey - Huggate. Part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route.
* 168: link south-east of Middlesbrough
* 169: Scunthorpe Ridgeway
* 172: Towpath of Royal Military Canal
* 174: Isle of Sheppey – 'Sheerness Way'
* 177: Maidstone – Ashford
* 178: Maidstone – Tonbridge
* 179: Around the Hoo Peninsula (also known as the Heron Trail)
* 195: Aberdeen – Aboyne
* 196: Pencaitland railway path (RR 73) east of Edinburgh

### Zone 2

* 207: Devon: South Brent – Dartington
* 208: South London: Raynes Park – Morden
* 212: (Beddington Park, Sutton – South Norwood Country Park, Croydon)
* 221: Basingstoke Canal
* 222: Sussex Downs Link
* 223: Guildford – Chertsey
* 224: Farnham – Medstead
* 231: Isle of Wight
* 232: (Mitcham Common, Merton – Lloyd Park, Croydon)
* 235: Isle of Wight
* 236: Portsmouth – Lyndhurst
* 244: Two Tunnels Greenway, Bath
* 246: Totton – Romsey – Andover – Stockbridge – Kintbury
* 248: Honiton – Sidmouth
* 250: North Dorset Trailway
* 253: South Somerset Cycleway (RR41)
* 254: Wiltshire Cycleway
* 255: Wiltshire Cycleway links, Chippenham area
* 256: Ringwood – Wimborne Minster
* 264: Castle Cary – Keinton Mandeville
* 267: Bridport – Maiden Newton railway path
* 270: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid
* 272: Devon: Ivybridge – Yelverton, also Ashburton and east
* 273: southern NCN3 braid near Holsworthy
* 274: Devon Coast-to-Coast alternate braid (Peter Tavy to Clearbrook)
* 275: North Devon coast (former RR)
* 276: North Devon coast (former RR)
* 277: North Devon coast (former RR)
* 278: Devon Coast-to-Coast Woolacombe braid

### Zone 3

* 305: Bugle, Cornwall
* 326: NCN3 inland braid to Truro
* 327: Launceston to Tavistock
* 334: south from Bristol
* 338: north from Taunton
* 339: Bridgwater – Langport – Ilminster
* 341: Exeter – Crediton
* 344: NCN3 alternate braid to Bampton

### Zone 4

* 403: North Wiltshire NCN4 braid
* 410: Avon Cycleway (Bristol Ring)
* 413: Evesham – Cheltenham NCN45 cut-off
* 416: Bristol – Yate
* 423: Cwmbran – Monmouth – Ross (former RR30 and Peregrine Path)
* 425: Rotherhithe – Camberwell
* 426: Skenfirth – Kentchurch
* 436: Dulais Valley, South Wales
* 437: South Wales to Glanaman
* 438: South Wales to Glanaman
* 439: South Wales to Glanaman
* 440: Milford Haven
* 442: Cotswold Line Cycle Route: Worcester – Evesham – Oxford
* 446: Carmarthen – Llandysul
* 447: Cardiganshire to Newcastle Emlyn
* 448: Crymych – Cardigan
* 451: Nantwich – Crewe – Sandbach
* 455: Oswestry – Ellesmere – Whitchurch (former RR31)
* 461: Slough / Eton Dorney
* 465: Pontypool – Hafodyrynys (- Crumlin); (Aberbeeg -) Cwm – Beaufort
* 466: Valleys
* 467: Valleys
* 468: (Trethomas -) Pengam – Abertysswyg (-) Rhymney – Bute Town
* 469: Bargoed – (Fochriw – Rhymney)
* 475: Caerphilly – Senghenydd
* 476: Trelewis – Taff Bargoed
* 477: Edwardsville – Merthyr Tydfil
* 478: Abercynon – Llwydcoed
* 481: Salisbury Plain NCN45 braid
* 482: Chiseldon – Marlborough NCN45 braid
* 485: Fosse2 link to Daventry
* 492: Cwmbran – Brynmawr

### Zone 5

* 523: Kenilworth – Balsall Common – Hampton-in-Arden
* 524: Nuneaton-Tamworth-Alrewas
* 525: North Warwickshire Cycleway (W) and Coventry link
* 526: North Warwickshire Cycleway (E)
* 533: Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
* 534: Sutton Coldfield Connect2 – Sutton Park to Castle Vale
* 535: Birmingham – Sutton Coldfield
* 536: Banbury – Towcester – Northampton – Thrapston
* 539: Northampton Norbital
* 544: Didcot – Wantage (former Regional Route 44)
* 547: south-east Peak District
* 548: Hartington – High Peak Trail
* 549: Etwall – Uttoxeter – Maniford Trail
* 550: Caldon Canal towpath
* 551: Newcastle-under-Lyme – Silverdale
* 552: Newport – Market Drayton (former RR75)
* 554: Lichfield – Hednesford link
* 555: Stoke – Kidsgrove via Trent & Mersey Canal towpath
* 558: South Manchester
* 559: Caldon Canal Leek Branch – the Roaches
* 561: Warrington – St Helens – Skelmerdale
* 562: Runcorn – Widnes – St Helens – Wigan – Southport
* 566: Anglesey north coast
* 568: Wirral – Hawarden Bridge – Chester (former Regional Route 89)
* 573: Congleton – Northwich (former Regional Route 73)
* 574: Sewell - Berkhamsted - Chesham
* 576: Rickmansworth – Chesham – Wendover
* 577: Witney – Carterton – Cricklade
* 585: former RR55 Redditch – Birmingham, and canal towpath to city centre

### Zone 6

* 622: Preston Guild Wheel (circular route)
* 627: Sheffield – Penistone – Kirkburton
* 633: Worthington – Ashby – Moira
* 636: Harrogate – Knaresborough, also known as the Beryl Burton cycleway
* 645: Sherwood Forest – Southwell
* 646: Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincolnshire
* 647: Lincoln – Worksop
* 648: Bakewell – Sherwood Forest
* 656: Coxwold – Osmotherly. The High Level Option of the White Rose route.
* 657: Easingwold – Upsall. Thirsk area loop
* 658: York northern city route
* 665: Wetherby – Tadcaster – York
* 668: north Leeds
* 672: Derby – Ilkeston greenway
* 674: Bluebell Way: Thurcroft – Woodsetts, link to Doncaster and Worksop
* 677: north Leeds (Roundhay Park)
* 680: Monsall Trail
* 688: Winterburn – Linton-on-Ouse. Way of the Roses central section
* 689: Huddersfield – Meltham
* 696: Airedale Greenway: Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath Keighley – Shipley
* 697: Linesway Greenway: Castleford – Garforth
* 699: Huddersfield Narrow Canal east, and east from Dewsbury

### Zone 7

* 700: Bay Cycle Way: Glasson Dock – Walney Island
* 715: Barnard Castle – Bishop Auckland (Walney 2 Wear alternative)
* 725: Great North Cycleway: Darlington – Newcastle – Blyth
* 753: West Kilbride – Largs – Gourock
* 754: Bowling – Clydebank – Kirkintilloch – Falkirk – Linlithgow – Edinburgh (Forth and Clyde Canal & Union Canal)
* 756: East Kilbride – Rutherglen – Glasgow – Kelvindale (- Bishopbriggs)
* 764: Clackmannan – Dunfermline
* 765: Stirling – Bridge of Allan
* 766: Star of Markinch – Glenrothes – Kirkcaldy
* 767: Alloa – Tillicoultry – Dollar
* 768: Tullibody – Alva (- Tillicoultry)
* 775: Milnathort – Perth – Lochearnhead
* 776: Newburgh – Auchtermuchty – Falkland
* 777: Newburgh – Newport-on-Tay
* 780: Hebridean Way: Vatersay – Barra – Eriskay – Uist – Berneray – Lewis and Harris

### Zone 8

* 810: Liverpool – Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone number)
* 811: Valleys – Porth-Pontypridd (Rhondda Fach)
* 818: Llangurig NCN81 high level braid
* 819: Rhayader-Strata Florida southern braid
* 820: Llanwrtyd Wells – Strata Florida/NCN81
* 822: Aberaeron – Lampeter
* 825: Radnor Ring
* 862: Gellings Greenway: Kirkby – Knowsley (Liverpool)
* 881: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Pontypridd – Maerdy)
* 882: Valleys (Rhondda Valley / Treorchy)
* 883: Valleys (Ogmore Valley)
* 884: Valleys (Garw Valley)
* 885: Bridgend – Maesteg – Afan Forest Park
* 887: Port Talbot – Pontrhydyfen – Afan Forest Park